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• Bitcoin Mining Pressures Hardware Prices

  14-04-2018 23:44 via newsbtc.com
  Demand for computer components has skyrocketed with the surge of cryptocurrency mining, with prices more than doubling the past 12 months in some cases as suppliers are struggling to build enough capacity to meet the needs of the emerging market.
  Prices of PC Components Skyrocket Due to Bitcoin Mining
  The cryptocurrency mining boom is taking the blame for the inflationary prices in the PC hardware industry. The exponential demand for processing power and memory needed to mine crypto hashes for c
  
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• Bitcoin Under The Skin – Why People Are Using Subdermal Microchip Wallets

  14-04-2018 23:43
  Dutchman Martijn Wismeijer is very cautious when it comes to storing Bitcoin – so much so that in 2014, he had two NFC (near field communication) chips surgically implanted into each hand to store his encrypted Bitcoin keys. Wismeijer stated a number of reasons for the drastic method of storing crypto, saying he had lost
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• Citizen Zuck: Facebook Claims To Protect Us From Scams, But Who Will Protect Us From Facebook?

  14-04-2018 22:56 via cointelegraph.com
  Facebook wants to limit your choices, but don’t be surprised: that’s how they usually are. #ANALYSIS
  
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• Participate in DEEP AERO Pre-ICO and Win a Passenger Drone

  14-04-2018 21:28
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• Tim Draper: “Everybody Wants to Leave California”

  14-04-2018 21:10 via cointelegraph.com
  “Any country that gets highly regulated gets poorer, more poverty. And any country that's free - gets richer.” Full interview with Tim Draper #INTERVIEW
  
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• Indiegogo-based ICO Fan Controlled Football League Inks Twitch Streaming Deal

  14-04-2018 21:09
  The Fan Controlled Football League (FCFL), the first token sale held on Indiegogo’s new initial coin offering (ICO) platform, has inked a two-year deal with streaming service Twitch to broadcast games live. According to Fox Sports, the eight-team indoor football league’s hour-long games — which will be played in a production studio on a 50-yard … Continued
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• Lafayette, Louisiana’s Mayor-President Reveals Plans to Create a Municipal Digital Currency and Accompanying ICO

  14-04-2018 18:49 via newsbtc.com
  Joel Robideaux, Mayor-President of Lafayette, Louisiana, announced yesterday that the city-parish government is considering creating its own digital currency and holding an accompanying initial coin offering (ICO). Doing so would position Lafayette to follow the lead of Berkeley, California, which earlier this year revealed plans to create a municipal bond-backed digital coin.
  Lafayette’s Digital Currency
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• Nobel Winning Economist Shiller Says Bitcoin ‘Bubble’ May Be Around For A While

  14-04-2018 18:40 via cointelegraph.com
  While Bitcoin may be a “bubble,” it may not “burst” and be gone “forever,” says Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Shiller. #NEWS
  
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• Experts Predict Bitcoin Price to Reach $25,000 by 2018, $250,000 by 2022

  14-04-2018 17:49
  The bitcoin price crossed the $8,000 mark earlier this week, supported by a massive spike in buy volumes across all major cryptocurrency exchanges. Analysts explained that a sudden surge in demand from institutional investors and inflow of new capital may have triggered the surge in the bitcoin price. $250,000 by 2022 On April 13, CCN
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• Germany’s 2nd Largest Stock Exchange Launches Crypto Trading App

  14-04-2018 16:52
  The Bison app, which was developed by Boerse Stuttgart, will be available to cryptocurrency traders in the fall. Germany is taking the lead among retail exchanges tapping into the cryptocurrency base. Sowa Labs, a fintech subsidiary of Boerse Stuttgart, Germany’s second largest stock exchange for retail derivatives, has launched Bison, a mobile app for trading cryptocurrencies. Bison will support
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• German 2nd Largest Stock Exchange Launches Crypto Trading App

  14-04-2018 16:52
  The Bison app, which was developed by Boerse Stuttgart, will be available to cryptocurrency traders in the fall. Germany is taking the lead among retail exchanges tapping into the cryptocurrency base. Sowa Labs, a fintech subsidiary of Boerse Stuttgart, Germany’s second largest stock exchange for retail derivatives, has launched Bison, a mobile app for trading cryptocurrencies. Bison will support
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• DATA in Seoul: Attending 1st Blockchain Asia Meetup

  14-04-2018 16:50
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• MARK.SPACE Secures US$11 Million in Financing to Drive Growth of Blockchain-Powered Social VR & AR Platform

  14-04-2018 16:45
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• CNBC’s Brian Kelly Supports Tim Draper’s BTC Prediction Of $250,000 By 2022

  14-04-2018 15:53 via cointelegraph.com
  Tim Draper’s prediction for BTC to hit $250,000 in 2022 is backed up by CNBC Fast Money’s Brian Kelly. #NEWS
  
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• Opinion: We are at the End of another Cryptocurrency Downward Trend

  14-04-2018 15:50
  Since the beginning of 2018, the price of Bitcoin has been one of the most popularly discussed topics within the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The reason for this is not far-fetched as there has been a huge slump in price and a downward pressure that defeats the expectations of many. An Influx of Speculators Besides the underlying
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• How Does My Xavier Project Ensure Anonymity and Security?

  14-04-2018 15:43
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• Blockchain Platform Hopes To Stop Electricity Bills Surging Through Energy Marketplace

  14-04-2018 15:43 via cointelegraph.com
  A new Blockchain platform wants to prevent energy shortages by stopping imbalances between supply and demand #SPONSORED
  
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• Blockchain Protocol Aims to Popularize Crypto Payments and Tackle Credit Card Fees

  14-04-2018 15:41
  This is a submitted sponsored story. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the content below. PumaPay is creating a Blockchain protocol which presents merchants and shoppers with a practical alternative to credit cards – arguing that cryptocurrencies have failed to become a de
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• Blockchain Platform Aims to Become a One-Stop-Shop for Sharing Physical Assets

  14-04-2018 15:40
  This is a submitted sponsored story. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the content below. According to eMarketer, 66.3 mln people will most likely leverage the potential of the sharing economy this year. In spite of its notable expansion, the sharing economy does
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• Blockchain Powered Video Sharing Platform Gains Ground: Viuly Crosses 1,000,000 User Mark

  14-04-2018 15:39
  This is a submitted sponsored story. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the content below. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then surely a video is worth a thousand pictures. The internet has changed many sectors, whether industrial, financial or entrepreneur.
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• Experts Expect Bitcoin Price to Hit $250,000 by 2022, Here’s Why

  14-04-2018 15:37 via newsbtc.com
  American venture capital investor Tim Draper, an early backer of Tesla, Skype, and SpaceX, is one of the most high-profile Bitcoin investors. With absolute confidence that bitcoin is the future currency, Draper announced that he predicts the bitcoin price will reach $250,000 by 2022.
  Tim Draper Predicts Bitcoin at $250,000 By 2022
  Tim Draper has thrown a cryptocurrency celebration on Thursday, called Blockparty, not to be confused with British indie rock band Bloc Party. The party poster, w
  
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• Skycoin Announces Obelisk Protocol to Fix Present Flaws in Bitcoin and Ethereum

  14-04-2018 15:34
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• Cryptocurrency Inspired Pen Launched by Italian Pen Manufacturer, Ancora 1919

  14-04-2018 15:31
  This is a submitted sponsored story. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the content below. The pen has always been linked with wisdom. Man could transfer deep thoughts and profound understandings on to pieces of parchment or paper, preserved forever. Writing materials once
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• Bitcoin Price: Experts Weigh in on Cryptocurrency Price Recovery Amidst Institutional Interest

  14-04-2018 15:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bitcoin looks like it will end the week with a 15% price increase and all but four of the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization are still showing green. Investors are demonstrating increased confidence illustrated by trading volumes. Experts have shared their predictions and explanations for the increase, which may well indicate a recovery for […]
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• Bermuda Outlines Cryptocurrency Regulations to Attract Entrepreneurs

  14-04-2018 14:46
  Bermuda is moving forward on virtual currency legislation as it seeks to attract fintech entrepreneurs, the country’s Minister of National Security noted during an overview of its proposed fintech regulatory framework at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute, according to the Royal Gazette. The minister, Wayne Caines, gave the presentation to a standing-room-only audience. Next month,
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• Crypto Hedge Fund Pantera Capital: BTC Will ‘Highly Likely’ Break $20,000 This Year

  14-04-2018 14:38 via cointelegraph.com
  According to crypto hedge fund Pantera Capital, whose CEO has made only 4 other crypto trade recs in the past, we are now in the “first innings” of a multi-decade trade of BTC. #NEWS
  
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• Wall Street Banks See Share Prices Fall While Crypto Markets Surge

  14-04-2018 13:30 via cointelegraph.com
  Wall Street banks experience fall in share price as BTC and ETH prices spike. #NEWS
  
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• Kenya’s Central Bank Warns Against Cryptocurrency

  14-04-2018 12:48
  As the regulatory debate continues mainly between government agencies and cryptocurrency protagonists, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), through its Governor, Patrick Njoroge joins in the campaign towards slowing down the propagation of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. A Recurrent Warning Njoroge told legislators on Thursday that he had sent a circular to all banks warning them … Continued
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• A Tangled Web: Will Coinbase Ventures Lead to Conflicts of Interest?

  14-04-2018 12:20
  Coinbase's new VC arm raises thorny questions about the influence the startup wields across the crypto market and potential conflicts of interest.
  
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• IOTA: The $3.7 Billion Cryptocurrency Developers Love to Hate - Coindesk

  14-04-2018 11:55 via coindesk.com
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  IOTA: The $3.7 Billion Cryptocurrency Developers Love to Hate
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  Cryptocurrency is crawling with ambitious visions for the future. Indeed, one of the most hyped ways in which the technology could come to proliferate is through its union with a concept called the internet of things (IoT), whereby nearly everything ...
  
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• IOTA: The $3.7 Billion Cryptocurrency Developers Love to Hate

  14-04-2018 11:40
  One of the largest crypto assets has been under fire for its technical decisions, with some developers even branding IOTA the coin they love to hate.
  
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• IOTA: The $3.7 Billion Crypto Developers Love to Hate

  14-04-2018 11:40
  One of the largest crypto assets has been under fire for its technical decisions, with some developers even branding IOTA the coin they love to hate.
  
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• IOTA: The $2.7 Billion Cryptocurrency Developers Love to Hate

  14-04-2018 11:40
  One of the largest crypto assets has been under fire for its technical decisions, with some developers even branding IOTA the coin they love to hate.
  
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• SOXAX Decentralized Social Partners with Coinpayments.Net to Launch SOXAX ICO

  14-04-2018 11:04
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• How Can NAUS Change Social Networks for the Better Using Blockchain?

  14-04-2018 10:38
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• Blockchain Integration Will Improve Corporate Efficiency and Transparency

  14-04-2018 10:37
  The implications of using distributed ledger technology to track the lifecycle of products and services are staggering. Businesses are already increasing the efficiency, security, and transparency of their brands by integrating Blockchain technology into their existing production and shipping processes. Before Blockchain Supply management has always been one of the most important logistical hurdles for … Continued
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• CoinMetro Is Giving Away Free XCM in a Generous Airdrop Campaign Ending April 15th 2018

  14-04-2018 10:32
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• UHIVE The Next-Gen Social Networking App Announces Token Event

  14-04-2018 10:29
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• Hada DBank Welcomes Additional Strategic Partnership and Expert Eclii Ventures to Its Advisory Board

  14-04-2018 10:27
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• THEKEY: Announces Their Platform for Identity Verification and Pension Claims – Laying the Foundations for Real World Cryptocurrencies Use Cases

  14-04-2018 10:24
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• Decentralized Video Sharing Platform Viuly Hits Landmark of 1 Million Users

  14-04-2018 10:20
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• BitRewards Announces Partnerships with TUI, Eventbrite and GoPro

  14-04-2018 10:17
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• Orocrypt Offers Digitized Precious Metals on Ethereum Blockchain

  14-04-2018 10:15
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• Tokenbox goes to Dubai: WBF & CHSP international networking event

  14-04-2018 09:49 via crypto-news.net
  Tokenbox CEO Pavel Salas is heading to Dubai to join visionary leaders, economic pioneers and enterprising investors from around the world at World Blockchain Forum to discuss the future of our financial world. He will also speak at CSHP CLUB, the very first international network for blockchain enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, traders, investors and journalists.
  The CHSP gathering will be held at PRAIA club, located in the heart of the beautiful FIVE hotel territory on the shore of the Arabia Gulf, o
  
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• “Litecoin and Stellar are Under Valued” NEO, EOS, Litecoin, IOTA and Stellar: Technical Analysis April 14, 2018

  14-04-2018 09:11 via newsbtc.com
  We saw the importance of Bitcoin in the course of this week. It is up 17 percent in the last 7 days and the effect on altcoins is profound. Leading this surge is EOS which is up 48% and likely to displace Litecoin in the top 5 spot. In my view, and this is important, most altcoins will continue to add in the coming week and I shall focus primarily on Litecoin and Stellar Lumens which are lagging.
  Let’s have a look at these charts:
  XLM/USD (Stellar Lumens)
  XLMUSD 4HR Chart from Bittrex for
  
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• Blockchain Payment Protocol Aims to End ‘Downsides’ of Online Payments

  14-04-2018 09:00 via newsbtc.com
  A crypto startup aims to attract customers away from using credit cards to pay for items both online and offline by introducing a Blockchain protocol that will make it easier to use cryptocurrencies instead.
  PumaPay says Bitcoin and many of its rivals have failed to become mainstream payment methods because they lack scalability and flexibility – despite being launched almost a decade ago. This has made it difficult for cryptocurrency holders to use their funds without converting to old-fa
  
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• Nobel Laureate Economist Robert Shiller Calls Bitcoin ‘Sort Of A Bubble’

  14-04-2018 07:01
  Robert Shiller, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, called bitcoin a “sort of bubble,” which is not to say it will burst. Shiller, the 2013 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in “Trendspotting In Asset Markets,” made his comments on an interview for CNBC. Shiller made his remarks shortly after bitcoin recorded a
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• Lafayette Parish, Louisiana Considers Development Of Municipal Cryptocurrency And ICO

  14-04-2018 04:02 via cointelegraph.com
  Mayor-President of the Lafayette parish proposed developing a municipal virtual currency, claiming it would attract investors to the parish and help “develop solutions targeting government inefficiencies.” #NEWS
  
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• Local Authorities Approve Lease For Bitmain Subsidiary In Rural Washington

  14-04-2018 03:08 via cointelegraph.com
  While the project is projected to bring 25-35 permanent jobs to the area, it would draw the power equivalent of 24,000 residences. #NEWS
  
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• Russian IPChain Association Will Digitize Kyrgyzstan’s Patent Records

  14-04-2018 02:00 via cointelegraph.com
  Russian IPChain association is will digitize Kyrgyzstan’s national patent records using Blockchain technology. #NEWS
  
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